Archive for category Mountaineering

Clinging to civilisation for a bit longer, our planned ‘first lift of the morning’ start turned in to a savoured hotel breakfast and more of a 10 am-ish lift. Our plans for the day weren’t too ambitious – lifts to the Indren station, ascend to the Mantova Hut to set […]

July is summer in the northern hemisphere – news to this Antipodean once as a child and then again more recently on Monte Rosa. I’ve since checked once more. During a two-week stay in Les Houches prior to this climbing adventure, rain had been the recurring theme in continually unsettled […]

Motion picture isn’t really my forte but since I had a GoPro in the Alps this year, it seems a waste not to make something of it. I spent a spare hungover afternoon chopping the footage together. It needs to come with a warning that the wobbly helmet-cam footage will […]